Jeremiah 30:5
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5 “Thus says the Lord:
We have heard a cry of panic,
of terror, and no peace.
Luke 19:41-44
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Jesus Weeps over Jerusalem
41 (A)And when he drew near and saw the city, (B)he wept over it, 42 saying, (C)“Would that you, even you, had known on this day the things that make for peace! But now (D)they are hidden from your eyes. 43 For (E)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (F)will set up a barricade around you and (G)surround you and hem you in on every side 44 (H)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (I)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (J)the time of your (K)visitation.”
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Zephaniah 1:10-11
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10 “On that day,” declares the Lord,
“a cry will be heard from (A)the Fish Gate,
(B)a wail from (C)the Second Quarter,
a loud crash from the hills.
11 (D)Wail, O inhabitants of the Mortar!
For all the traders[a] are no more;
all who weigh out silver are cut off.
Footnotes
- Zephaniah 1:11 Or all the people of Canaan
Amos 8:10
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10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation;
(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
(C)and baldness on every head;
(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Isaiah 5:30
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30 They will growl over it on that day,
like the growling of the sea.
And if one looks to the land,
behold, (A)darkness and distress;
and the light is darkened by its clouds.
Luke 23:29-30
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29 For behold, (A)the days are coming when they will say, (B)‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’ 30 (C)Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’
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Luke 21:25-26
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The Coming of the Son of Man
25 “And (A)there will be signs in sun and moon (B)and stars, and on the earth (C)distress of nations in perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, 26 people fainting with fear and with foreboding of what is coming on the world. For (D)the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
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Amos 5:16-18
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16 Therefore thus says the Lord, (A)the God of hosts, the Lord:
“In all the squares (B)there shall be wailing,
and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmers to mourning
and (C)to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
17 and in all vineyards there shall be wailing,
for (D)I will pass through your midst,”
says the Lord.
Let Justice Roll Down
18 Woe to you who desire (E)the day of the Lord!
Why would you have the day of the Lord?
(F)It is darkness, and not light,
Jeremiah 46:5
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5 Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed
and have turned backward.
Their (A)warriors are beaten down
and have fled in haste;
(B)they look not back—
(C)terror on every side!
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 31:15-16
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15 Thus says the Lord:
(A)“A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
lamentation and bitter weeping.
(C)Rachel is weeping for her children;
she refuses to be comforted for her children,
(D)because they are no more.”
16 Thus says the Lord:
“Keep your voice from weeping,
and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,
declares the Lord,
and (E)they shall come back from the land of the enemy.
Jeremiah 25:36
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36 A voice—the cry (A)of the shepherds,
(B)and the wail of the lords of the flock!
For the Lord is laying waste their pasture,
Jeremiah 9:19
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19 For a sound of wailing is heard from Zion:
(A)‘How we are ruined!
We are utterly shamed,
because we have left the land,
because they have cast down our dwellings.’”
Jeremiah 8:19
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19 Behold, the cry of the daughter of my people
from (A)the length and breadth of the land:
“Is the Lord not in Zion?
(B)Is her King not in her?”
(C)“Why have they provoked me to anger with their carved images
and with their foreign idols?”
Jeremiah 6:23-25
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23 They lay hold on bow and javelin;
they are (A)cruel and have no mercy;
(B)the sound of them is like the roaring sea;
they ride on horses,
set in array as a man for battle,
against you, O daughter of Zion!”
24 We have heard the report of it;
(C)our hands fall helpless;
anguish has taken hold of us,
(D)pain as of a woman in labor.
25 Go not out into the field,
nor walk on the road,
for the enemy has a sword;
(E)terror is on every side.
Jeremiah 4:15-20
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15 For a voice (A)declares from Dan
and proclaims trouble from (B)Mount Ephraim.
16 Warn the nations that he is coming;
announce to Jerusalem,
“Besiegers come (C)from a distant land;
they shout against the cities of Judah.
17 Like keepers of a field (D)are they against her all around,
because she has rebelled against me,
declares the Lord.
18 Your ways and your deeds
have brought this upon you.
This is your doom, and (E)it is bitter;
it has reached your very heart.”
Anguish over Judah's Desolation
19 (F)My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
Oh the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
I cannot keep silent,
for I hear the sound of the trumpet,
the alarm of war.
20 (G)Crash follows hard on crash;
the whole land is laid waste.
(H)Suddenly my tents are laid waste,
my curtains in a moment.
Isaiah 59:11
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11 We all growl like bears;
(A)we moan and moan like doves;
(B)we hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.
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